Thanks ar,<br><br>Well done NITDA!!! <br>This has now become possible.<br>Good luck <.ng> in serving the society.<br><br>Yassin<br>(Abuja)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 18/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Anne-Rachel Inné</b> <<a href="mailto:annerachel@gmail.com">annerachel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<b>NITDA, Nira Sign Pact On Nigeria Web</b>
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NEWS<br>
17 January 2008
<br>Posted to the web 17 January 2008
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Lagos
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National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and Nigerian
Internet Re-gistration Association (NiRA), yesterday in Abuja, signed a
memorandum of understanding MoU for management of the nation's web
domain.
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<p>The address of the country's web domain is .ng. The MOU gave NiRA
the sole authority to administer the Nigerian Country Code Top Level
Domain (cctld).ng.
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<p>Professor Cleopas Angaye, NITDA Director General, said at
theceremony, that "with this development, all government Ministries,
Departments and Agencies (MDAs) should take measure to establish their
presence on the web."MDA's should ensure that any existing web sites
are migrated to the country's top level .ng domain. Section 17(4) of
the Information Technology Act makes it an offence for anyone to
disregard such guidelines issued under the act," he said, adding that
NiRA would facilitate the tracking of "419" mails emanating from the
country.
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<p>Mr Ndukwe Kalu, NiRA President, said the Association would work to
ensure that the .ng domain competed favourably with other domains
globally and appealed to Nigerians both at home and in the Diaspora,
whom he claimed owned over a million domains, to migrate to the .ng
domain.
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<p>"The .ng domain will present a platform for an internet revolution
on the African continent," he said.Kalu said the network would have
multiple servers hosted in serval points, both in and outside the
country to ensureoptimal operation.
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